Samuel ayres



S. AYRES.

(No Model.)

MUZZLB.

No. 262,917.' Patented A11-g. 22, 1882.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL AYRES, OF WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO SAMUEL AYRES dz: SON, OF SAME PLACE.

MUZZLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of LettersPatent No. 262,917', dated August 22, 1882.

Application filed February 20, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, SAMUEL AYRES, a resident of the city and county of Worcester, State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and Improved Muzzle, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the construction of muzzles of wire in a particular manner 5 and it consists in the employment of stiff wire having bends or eorrugatious where they cross, whereby they brace, stiften, and retain each other in place, as explained in the following description.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l shows a side and Fig. 2 a top view of an oxmuzzle embodying my invention,the same letters referring to the same parts in each.

A aud C in said drawings are stiff rings, around which the ends ofthe curved wires D D are turned or clinched, the ring C forming the bottom and A the mouth or top. The wires D D are given the desired shape to form the body, and have a bend or corrugation at b toreceive the bracing-ring B, which is corrugated or bent to correspond with each of the wires D and hold them in place, while the corrugations of the wires retain the ring B securely in place. The small wires ff are used to ll the spaces in the lower part when desired, though, perhaps, not in all cases needed, and the plate I covers the central hole when required, being secured by small binding-wire, the whole to be suspended on the head in any of the common ways preferred.

I am aware that muzzles have been made by twisting wires around each other, like the meshes in wire-netti n g, and securing the whole to ring at the top. These I do not claim; but

What I claim as new, and desire to patent, 1s

1. The muzzle composed of the top and bottom rings, the intermediate corrugated brace-V ring, B, and the corrugated radially-curved side wires, D D, substantially as set forth.

2. The muzzle composed of the top and bottom rings, the intermediate brace-ring, B, the corrugated radially-curved side wires, D D, and the tilling-wiresfj, substantially as set forth.

\ SAML. AYRES.

Witnesses:

KILO WANU, J. G. ARNOLD. 

